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Breathing apparatus

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A breathing set may refer to:

  • Scuba set, any breathing set that is carried entirely by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure
  • Rebreather, a breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide and adds oxygen to a user's exhaled breath, allowing unused oxygen to be recycled
  • Surface supplied diving, diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas using a diver's umbilical from the surface, such as a boat or platform
  • Self-contained breathing apparatus, used out of water, worn by rescue workers, firefighters and others
  • Spacesuit, a garment worn to keep a human alive in the harsh environment of outer space, primarily the vacuum and temperature extremes

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